The King in Love: Edward VII's Mistresses
10 best books like The King in Love: Edward VII's Mistresses (Theo Aronson): Edward VII: The Last Victorian King, A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III, Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King, Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess, A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings, Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England: An Irreverent Expose of the Monarchs from Henry VIII to the Present Day, Cupid and the King: Five Royal Paramours, Ladies in Waiting: From the Tudors to the Present Day, In Destiny's Hands: Five Tragic Rulers, Children of Maria Theresa, Uncrowned King: The Life of Prince Albert
Edward VII: The Last Victorian King
| Author | Christopher Hibbert |
| ISBN | 1403983771 |
A riveting biography that vividly captures the life and times of the last Victorian king.
To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German Kaiser condemned him as "an old...
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
| Author | Janice Hadlow |
| ISBN | 0805096566 |
The surprising, deliciously dramatic, and ultimately heartbreaking story of King George III’s radical pursuit of happiness in his private life with Queen Charlotte and their 15 children
In the U.S., Britain's George III, the protagonist of A Royal Experiment, is known as the king from...
Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
| Author | Charles Beauclerk |
| ISBN | 0802142745 |
Written by a direct descendant of the union between Nell Gwyn and King Charles II, Nell Gwyn tells the story of one of England’s great folk heroines, a woman who rose from an impoverished, abusive childhood to become King Charles II’s most cherished mistress, and the star of one of the great love stories...
Charlotte & Leopold: The True Story of The Original People's Princess
| Author | James Chambers |
| ISBN | 1905847238 |
The tragic story of the doomed romance between Charlotte, heir to the English throne, and Leopold, uncle of Queen Victoria and first King of the Belgians. A story that Jane Austen famously declined to tell, declaring: “I could no more write a romance than an epic poem.”
Charlotte was the...
A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings
The acclaimed author of Aristocrats returns with a major new book that reveals the story of a regal family plagued by scandal and notoriety and trapped by duty, desire, and the protocols of royalty.
History remembers King George III of England as the mad monarch who lost America. But as a young man,...
| Author | Nigel Cawthorne |
| ISBN | 1853755362 |
Prion’s internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and film. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and eye-opening revelations. The headlines of...
| Author | Princess Michael of Kent |
The royal European courts were unsurpassed for their glamour, wealth, fame, danger, treachery, and politics. The royal mistress was at the center of that world -- admired for her beauty and sensuality; feared for the power she wielded; even vilified, envied, and resented. In times when women had very...
| Author | Anne Somerset |
| ISBN | 0753819872 |
Far from being servants or decorative accessories in court, ladies-in-waiting competed for real positions of power--and many succeeded in their goals, sometimes betraying their queens in the process. A few even became royal mistresses, such as the rapacious Lady Castlemaine who amassed a fortune...
| Author | Justin C. Vovk |
| ISBN | 0557060214 |
Maria Theresa, Holy Roman Empress and Austri-Hungarian Queen in the 1700's, had 14 children, five of whom became rulers in their own right across Europe. This book follows the stories of those five children with bits and pieces of their other siblings, their children, the history and political landscape...
| Author | Stanley Weintraub |
| ISBN | 0743206096 |
Stanley Weintraub, biographer of Victoria and other major figures of her era, here unveils the largely hidden role of Albert, establishing him as one of the greatest men of his days. Drawing on previously unexplored sources, Weintraub delves into Albert's political, familial, financial, medical,...
| Author | Lucy Worsley |
| ISBN | 1596913584 |
From the Chief Curator of the Historic Royal Palaces in England, a vivid portrait of a seventeenth-century nobleman, his household, and the dramatic decades surrounding the English Civil War.
William Cavendish embodied the popular image of a cavalier. He was both courageous and cultured....
| Author | Mary S. Lovell |
| ISBN | 0393342255 |
Mary S. Lovell brilliantly recounts the triumphant political and military campaigns, domestic tragedies, happy marriages, and disastrous unions throughout generations of Churchills.
The first Duke of Marlborough (1650–1722) was a soldier of such genius that a lavish palace,...
Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England
| Author | Maureen Waller |
| ISBN | 0312338015 |
"In the bestselling tradition of authors Antonia Fraser and David Starkey, Maureen Waller has written a fascinating narrative history---a brilliant combination of drama and biographical insight---of the six women who have ruled England in their own names. "
In the last millennium there...
A Royal Passion: The Turbulent Marriage of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France
| Author | Katie Whitaker |
| ISBN | 0393060799 |
A royal marriage, based on romantic passion and ferocious, unbridgeable religious differences, ends in tragedy ”a history worthy of Shakespeare.
It was, from the start, a dangerous experiment. Charles I of England was a Protestant, the fifteen-year-old French princess a Catholic. The marriage...
She Wolves: The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
| Author | Elizabeth Norton |
| ISBN | 0750947357 |
This history deals with the bad girls of England's medieval royal dynasties, the queens who earned themselves a notorious reputation. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biography—Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France, and Anne Boleyn, for example—while...
Dearest Vicky, Darling Fritz
| Author | John Van der Kiste |
| ISBN | 0750930527 |
This work tells the love story of the royal couple against the changing background of 19th-century Germany. It looks at the differing political sympathies of the couple, revealed through letters, and re-examines the prevailing view that the domineering Vicky never bothered to conceal her distaste...
Henrietta Howard: King's Mistress, Queen's Servant
While I can't argue that Henrietta Howard is a fascinating woman, I was a bit disappointed that a book about a Kings Mistress was so entirely lacking in sex and scandal.
Basically the King would, like clockwork, spend a few hours in her room on set days. And he did this for rather a long time until...
Alice, The Enigma - A Biography of Queen Victoria's Daughter
Of all Queen Victoria’s nine children, none was more intriguing than her second daughter, Alice. The contradictions in her personality are so striking that, while she has often been overshadowed by her more illustrious brother, King Edward VII, and her brilliant sister, the German Empress Frederick,...
The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter
| Author | Matthew Dennison |
| ISBN | 0312376987 |
An engrossing biography of Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter that focuses on her relationship with her willful mother—a powerful and insightful look into two women of signifcant importance and infuence in world history.
Beatrice was the last child born to Queen Victoria and Prince...
My Just Desire: The Life of Bess Raleigh, Wife to Sir Walter
| Author | Anna Beer |
| ISBN | 0345452909 |
Young, beautiful, and connected by blood to the most powerful families in England, Bess Throckmorton had as much influence over Queen Elizabeth I as any woman in the realm—but she risked everything to marry the most charismatic man of the day. The secret marriage between Bess and the Queen’s beloved...
The history of the reign of Edward VIII - exceptionally short-lived as it was, and indeed one could question whether he ever 'reigned' at all, given that there was no Coronation - is known above all things for its ending. The traditional fairytale is that he gave up all for love, that he sacrificed his position,...
The Last Courts of Europe: Royal Family Album 1860-1914
| Author | Robert K. Massie |
| ISBN | 0517414724 |
Having just reviewed Winder's great book on Germany it suddenly made me realize I had not put up this book onto my shelves. If you are interested in the Royal and Imperial past of Europe, if you are fascinated by gazing at photographs of a long gone social order, if you gain a frisson of sadness or horror at...
Dark History of the Tudors
Little more than a synopsis of the Tudor reign. Do not expect a great deal of detail or any new/less well known information about this famous family of monarchs. Also, I find the use of the word 'incest' in this book's subtitle inaccurate and sensationalistic. The only "incest" mentioned in the entire...
